Festival Screening – August 16, 2015 @ 6:30 PM at Hoyts 11 Joel Edgerton makes his startling directorial debut with a sly psychothriller about unwanted advances, unexpected consequences and unsettling the ghosts of the past. When Simon (Jason Bateman) and his wife Robyn (Rebecca Hall) accidentally run into Gordo (Joel Edgerton, who previously wrote MIFF […]
First Festival Screening – August 13, 2015 @ 6:30 PM at ACMI 2 Last Festival Screening – August 15, 2015 @ 4:00 PM at Forum Hours before leaving Tehran for a three-year stay in Melbourne, young couple Amir and Sara pack up their apartment. Amid the hustle and bustle, Sara also agrees to babysit a […]
Festival Screening – August 9, 2015 @ 4:00 PM at Treasury Theatre Upon its release in 2013, Rolf de Heer’s Charlie’s Country was recognised as an instant classic of Australian cinema. Scoring longtime de Heer collaborator David Gulpilil a Best Actor award at Cannes, the film is a powerful meditation on Indigenous dispossession and the […]
First Festival Screening – August 9, 2015 @ 1:30 PM at ACMI 2 Last Festival Screening – August 11, 2015 @ 6:45 PM at Kino 1 In the beautiful, physically demanding and almost forgotten world of calisthenics, there is only one title that matters: Most Graceful Girl. For 26-year-old primary school teacher Brianna Lee, three-time […]
Festival Screening – August 8, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Hoyts Published in 1995, Holding the Man – winner of the United Nations Human Rights Award for Non-Fiction – is one of Australia’s favourite books. A tender, celebratory and refreshingly honest memoir about the author’s long-term love for John Caleo, his Melbourne high school’s football […]
